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The Evergreen.

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Love can not be the aloe-tree,         Whose bloom but once is seen;     Go search the grove--the tree of love         Is sure the evergreen:     For that's the same, in leaf or frame,         'Neath cold or sunny skies;     You take the ground its roots have bound,         Or it, transplanted, dies!     That love thus shoots, and firmly roots         In woman's heart, we see;     Through smiles and tears in after-years         It grows a fadeless tree.     The tree of love, all trees above,         For ever may be seen,     In summer's bloom or winter's gloom,         A hardy evergreen.

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